Re: aptitude/dpkg fails at "Preparing to unpack"
On Wed Aug 19 2015 at 11:40 AM +0200, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:32:24AM -0700, Bill Brelsford wrote:
> > Recent security updates on jessie (i486) have failed:
> >
> > # aptitude update
> > ...
> > # aptitude -DPR safe-upgrade
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> > libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common
> > ...
> > Reading changelogs... Done
> > (Reading database ... 72512 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Preparing to unpack .../libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0_2.31.1-2+deb8u2_i386.deb ...
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
> > Failed to perform requested operation on package. Trying to recover:
> >
> > Installing or removing specific packages also fails. apt-get works
> > fine, but subsequent aptitude runs fail the same way.
>
> First of all, eliminate the obvious: Do you have enough free space (and
> free inodes) in order to unpack the archive?
Yes.
> Secondly, is the unpack process segfaulting? You might not see a message
> at the console, but check if the kernel has logged an error.
No sign of segfaulting.
> > My other jessie system doesn't have this problem, so I assume
> > something is corrupt. But I can't find a way to repair it.
> > Suggestions? (Aptitude version is 0.6.11-1+b1, dpkg 1.17.25.)
Thanks for the response. Digging further (belatedly), the problem
appears to be that my calling script exported "SHELL=/bin/false"
into the environment, apparently causing dpkg to fail. Works fine
with it removed. Strange that it appeared suddenly and that it
didn't affect my other jessie system..
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